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-I’m on him every week, but on the opening TD drive, Chilo Rachal missed at least three blocks and got driven back into Alex Smith’s grill on the 7-yard TD pass. I just wonder if Rachal is healthy.

-Takeo Spikes is playing like a man possessed. He looks to have twice the passion of Patrick Willis.

-Gore lost the ball on his first fumble because Josh Morgan was unable to get a block on the linebacker. He had a free pass to Gore.

-Nate Clements missed a jam on DeSean Jackson in the second quarter and then stayed with him and knocked down the pass. Clements, other than the fumble, has been excellent in the past two games.

-Willis over pursued on McCoy’s 29-yard touchdown run and was easily blocked.

-They showed a graphic on Andy Reid’s 12 years in Philly. His teams have averaged 4.4 yards per carry, second highest in league history. It goes to show you how potent the run can be out of the West Coast offense and it shows you that running to set up the pass is folly. Meanwhile this year and last, the 49ers are among league leaders in pass attempts because they are always playing from behind. It seems paradoxical, but if you want to run, you have to be pass oriented. Reid’s teams pass 59 percent of the time. That’s the only way you eventually get to the run. The 49ers haven’t learned that since they ditched the West Coast with the firing of Steve Mariucci.

Through the first half, Alex Smith threw two bad passes, he threw to the wrong shoulder on a long pass to Ted Ginn Jr. and it was intercepted. On the last play from scrimmage in the half, he threw low to Vernon Davis in the end zone. His three other incompletions included a drop by Josh Morgan and two tipped passes.

SECOND HALF

Clements cut off speedy wide receiver Jeremy Maclin on a deep pass to the end zone and nearly made the interception.

-NBC color analyst Chris Collinsworth pointed out a few times how Smith missed a few open receivers, including Ted Ginn Jr. over the top to begin the fourth quarter. Instead, Smith threw a 16-yard pass to Josh Morgan.

-It seems like everyone on this team is inconsistent and that certainly applies to Ahmad Brooks. He disappears and then makes a Stork Hendricks-like play in the fourth quarter by popping up after getting cut-blocked and then knocking down a pass.

-NaVorro Bowman is playing more, but I don’t know why. Spikes is also good in pass protection.

-It’s hard to even say it, because it sounds like such an excuse, but the 49ers have gotten no breaks. Taylor Mays forces a fumble in the fourth quarter and the Eagles recover. The 49ers have one fumble recovery this year, fewest in the league.

-As we all know, Smith is so much better from the shotgun where he can pick out match ups and handle the blitz. The 49ers should go to this early in the game and then run later. When Smith struggled, it was because of pressure from a four-man pass rush, which happened five times in the second half. He was 1 of 4 for 16 yards with a sack in those plays.